Introduction -- Colonial missionaries and their schools -- Treaties and western removal, 1776-1867 -- Reservations, 1867-1887 -- Allotment and dependency, 1887-1924 -- Mission schools -- Government boarding schools -- Students and parents -- A new deal, 1924-1944 -- Termination and relocation, 1944-1969 -- Self-determination, 1969-1989 -- Higher education -- New directions in Indian education, 1989-2003 -- Entering the twenty-first century